Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-02
CATTLE AND RAILROADS,
Points OF the Advantages Possessed by
the City of Fort Worth for the L0-
cation of the Refrigerator.
The Railroads that Center at Fort Worth
with tho Number of Live Stock They
Make Tributary to the City.
Texas Live STOCK Journal.

The movement of cattlemen to aid in
The establishment of refrlgerators at
points convenient to the range, to furnish
a market for their beeves, is begun none
too soon. Common sense has long urged
to this as the best for the producer and
consumer, but the primary difficulty that
stood in the way required Extraordinary
efforts to overcome, and stockmen could
not be induced to put forth these eXtraor
binary efforts until extraordinary condi-
tons forced them to it. Those conditions
now are making themselves. felt. Some
thing must be done to break the GEN.
trailing power of the pools and rings
that have almost crushed the life out of
the business. The first thing to do Is to
release the grasp of this combination by
taking away from it the power to estab-
lisb prices at will. TIE way TO do this is
to carry the cattle elsewhere. But there
are no markets elsewhere. Then
make q market. Make several
markets. This IS the logic of the situa-
tioo, and this is what the stockmen
of the country are now moving to do.
They propose TO give such encouragement
as will lead to the building of refrigeTs-
tors anG canneries in the immediate range
country, To consume their p-oaucts at the
least possible expense for transportation.
The cost OF sending beef to Chicago les
sens BY that mucn the price paid to the
man who produced it. If he can find d
market az a point to which he can ship
his cattle for half as much as he now
psys, the saving Is his gain.
1t is the plan to aid in building beef
and mutton refrigerators at two points
in Texas, one to be in the northern part
of the state, convenient to the stock farms
OF the north ami east, and to the ranges
of the west and the Panhandle. There
are several towns that want refrigerstors
in Texas, but as only two are talked of,
but two OF them can be satisfied. San
Autouio or Houston will very likely be
the point for S nth Texas cattle to be
sent TO, and in the northern part the con-
test is between Dallas and Fort Worth.
Whichever of these latter two offers the
best Inducements will probably be settled
upon.
The Stock Journal presents in this ar
ticle some thoughts and statistics hesr-
ing upon this matter that will be worth
the reading of stOckmen.
There are two things to be considered:
/.
of getting them from the feeding grounds
and ranges to market
By "means of getting to the market
is understood, of course, means of rail
Way transportation. No place can COM
pete for the prize unless 1t has system
OF railroads running to the country from
which the supply of cattle is to be drawn,
and these roads must be the most direct
,k,1 Nt,tn 90 bot
A glance at the map accompanying this
article will show what place stands out
as possessing these advantages IN the
highest degree. Nine railroads extend
from Fort Worth in every direction, to-
every part of the compass, penetrating
every part Of the state, and fferirg facll-
tiles for the shipment OF beeves and NUT
tons here and the expectation of the
dressed product to the consumers mar
ket. These nine are the Atcnison, To-
peks and Santa Fe through the Indian
Territory; the Missouri Pacific
through the same country; the
Transcontinental through the north
eastern counties; the Texas and Pacifi:
east and west, from one end of the state
to the other; the Fort Worth and New
Orleans to the southeast; the Missouri
ACluC duu IDt bbIlt <oiOIouo GNU Aoesube
Fe to the south anG Gulf ports; the Fort
Worth and Denver Northwest through
the Panhandle. These are finished and
doing business. There are also the Fort
Worth and Rio Grande to the southwest,
which is to be in operation by May l, ard
the Fort Worth Western and the Kansas
Southern of Texas, both to
the northwest through the Pan
handle, chartered and soon to
be built. The directors of beth these
latter companies meet in Fort Worth
to-dsy, to vote bonds to begin work with
The directors of the Fort Worth Western
are H. W Slocum, w. II. II. Lawrence,
Calvin <. Brosdhead, George P.
Sheldon, E A. Morse, R M. Wynne,
VIZ. Lake, B. B. Paddock president
af the Fort Worth and Rio Grande}, aud
Daniel B. ButteIfi-ld. The directory OF
the Kansas Southern of Texas is COM
posed OF W. B. Strong and A |
Nickerson of the Atcbison, Topeka and |
Santa Fe, and Geo. Sesly, Waters S.
Davis, Isaac T. Burr, Alden Speare, r. S.
Willis, Webster Snyder and W II. Mas
tiers. Such names backing these roads
are a strong guaranty that they are
strlcly business enterprises, and M.